Short-term load forecasting in smart meters with sliding window-based ARIMA algorithms

Forecasting of electricity consumption for residential and industrial customers is an important task providing intelligence to the smart grid. Accurate forecasting should allow a utility provider to plan the resources as well as to take control actions to balance the supply and the demand of electricity. This paper presents two non-seasonal and two seasonal sliding window-based ARIMA (auto regressive integrated moving average) algorithms. These algorithms are developed for short-term forecasting of hourly electricity load at the district meter level. The algorithms integrate non-seasonal and seasonal ARIMA models with the OLIN (online information network) methodology. To evaluate our approach, we use a real hourly consumption data stream recorded by six smart meters during a 16-month period.